Our Team
The professional team is headed by Henryka Manès, the Founding Executive Director, who has a 20-year experience in the Humanitarian Aid and International Development field. She has worked in 23 countries worldwide initiating and directing projects in numerous specialties: healthcare, social services, education, economic development, agriculture, transforming slums into brick and mortar villages with physical and service infrastructure, emergency response and refugee resettlement. Her funding partners include USAID, the World Bank, UNDP, US Departments of State and Agriculture, and numerous domestic and international foundations. She has also worked in the private sector with renewable energy companies and continues to consult for Fortune 500 companies in the Corporate Social Responsibility sector.
Ms. Manès is Advisor to the Haitian League, the preeminent US-based international Haitian Diaspora organization. She serves on the Advisory Board of Mont Vista Capital, an investment bank specializing in renewable energies, and on the Board of Directors of The Bridge, Stage of the Arts, an international nonprofit theater production company based in New York City.
EWI Board of Directors
Ben Butler, President of EWI Board
Former President of Yum International’s Long John Silver and A&W All American Food Brands
Susan Menendez, Treasurer
Educator
Henryka Manès, Secretary
Ambassador Leslie Alexander
Former US ambassador to Haiti; currently Advisor to the Board of the Prime Advisory Group, Zurich, Switzerland
Yanick Michel
Y J Michel & Associates, P. A.
Eugene Rostov, Esq
E. Rostov & Associates
EWI Advisory Board
Ivette Day
Director of Private Dining
Smith & Wollensky
Carlos Garcia
CEO of Latin America, Novartis
Dr. Stephen Leatherman
Chair Professor and Director International Hurricane Research Center & Laboratory for Coastal Research, Florida International University
Avra Petrides
Producer
Claire Young
International Art Dealer